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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A'BEDNEGO BEDNEY HUGHES AND ANTHONY ROSE, OF CEDARVILLE,

CALIFORNIA.

COME-CLEANER.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ABEDNEGO BEDNEY HUGHEs and ANTHONY Rosn, citizens of the United States, and residents of Cedarville, in the county of Modoc and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Comb- Cleaner, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

This invention is an improvement in combcleaners designed to effectively cut the dandruiic and other accumulations from the combteeth. Adevice of this character is especially desirable as a toilet article to be kept about the home, hotels, &c., in order that the combs may be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.

The invention consists of a comb-tooth cleanser made up either in the form of a razor-strap or comb-case provided with a series of wires strung in a novel manner, which when the comb is intermeshed with them and drawn back and forth yieldingly press on the teeth at each side, thereby completely sawing out and dispelling the accumulated dirt and dandruif.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective View of one form of our invention made up as a comb-case and showing the comb in position to be cleaned. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modified form embodying our invention constructed much after the fashion of a razor-strap.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figs. l and 2, l indicates a comb-case, preferably made from sheet metal, with a beaded open end 2, so shaped that the ready withdrawal of the comb may be accomplished. The wide faces of the comb-case are cut away intermediate its ends, leaving only narrow strips 3 3 at each side connecting the ends of the case together. In the opposed edges and at both sides of the ends of the case are formed a series of alining openings 4, which furnish attaching means for connecting the ends of the case by a series of fine strands or steel wires 5. These wires are secured in the holes 4 by headed ends 6, as best shown in Fig. 2, or in other desired manner and comprise a set at each side of the case strung parallel to the strips 3 and alsoa set at each side diagonal thereof, each diagonal wire intersecting a longitudinal wire midway of its length. It is thus seen by the assemblage of the comb-case and wires as in Figs. l and 2 that the wires not only serve in the capacity of comb-cleansing means, but also prevent the withdrawal or accidental displacement of the comb from the case through one of the cut-away sides.

In Fig. 3 is a modilied form of our invention having the semblance of an ordinary razor-strap, consisting of metallic ends 7 and 8, providing, respectively, a handle and an attaching-plate. This latter part has a hole 9 for swinging it on a nail or the like in a wellknown manner. The ends 7 and 8 are laced together by parallel and diagonal steel wires lO and 11,respectively, arranged in the same manner as are the wires at each side of the comb-case.

In using the comb-cleaner the teeth are intermeshed with the wires at the center where they cross, as illustrated in Fig. l. In this position a longitudinal and a diagonal wire are in each space between the combteeth. By now drawing the comb back and forth laterally each tooth is yieldingly pressed on each side, increasing as the ends are approached, due to the divergent relation of the wires, which, in effect, act as yielding wedges, ejecting the accumulations between the teeth toward the apices of the wedges.

The precise embodiment of our invention is not material, provided its essential characteristics are employed as pointed out in the invention as claimed.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a comb-cleaner, a metallic comb-case cut out at both sides leaving end portions having alining perforations at each end and at each side of the case, a series of diagonal wires secured in the perforations and strung between the end portions, and a series of longitudinal wires secured in the perforations and strung between the ends intersecting the diagonal wires at the center, said wires performing the double function of preventing the accidental displacement of the comb lfrom the case and also as a cleaner for the comb-teeth.

2. In a comb-cleaner, a pocket for contain- IOO side thereof leaving the ends rigidly connected together, and strands strung between the ends adapted to operate on the comb-teeth as described. Y

3. In a comb-cleaner, a pocket for containing the comb having a cut-out portion at each side thereof, and two separate series of strands, one longitudinal and the other diagonal, intersecting at their centers, strung in each'cut-out portion, for the purpose described.

4. In a comb-cleaner, a metallic pocket for containing the comb, having cut-out portions intermediate its ends, a series of longitudinal wires connecting thev ends and riveted to them, and a series of diagonal wires intersecting the longitudinal series at their centers, riveted to and connecting the ends together.

5. In a comb-cleaner, end pieces, and wires lacing the end pieces together comprising longitudinal'and diagonal wires intersecting at their centers for cleansing the comb-teeth.

6. In a comb-cleaner, end pieces, and wires lacing the end pieces together, comprising a longitudinal and diagonal series intersecting at their centers, whereby when the teeth of the comb are interineshed therewith and drawn back and forth, the teeth are yieldingly pressed at each side, said pressure increasing as the ends are approached.

7. In a comb-cleaner, end pieces, and lon gitudinal strips connecting the end pieces together forming a pocket for a comb, said end pieces being laced together by a series of 1ongitudinal and diagonal wires, for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

i ABEDNEGO BEDNEY HUGHES.

ANTHONY ROSE. Witnesses:

JOHN NoLoN DoDsoN, JAMES EUsTAcE MAYFIELD; 

